Reynolds v. Swain
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APrEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE WATTS PRESIDINQ. This was an action on a verbal lease, to recover the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for one year’s rent, due and to become due.
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APrEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE WATTS PRESIDINQ. This was an action on a verbal lease, to recover the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, for one year’s rent, due and to become due. The plaintiff alleges, that he leased to the defendants, W. W. & T. Swain, through his agent, by verbal agreement with W. W. Swain, a certain brick tenement, on the corner of Poydras and Magazine streets, in the city of New-Orleans, for the price of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable in monthly instalments of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, each as they became due; the lease to…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff claims from the defendants, commercial partners, in solido, one year’s rent of a store, payable by monthly instalments, they having left the premises before the expiration of the lease.
The defendants pleaded the general issue.
The court gave judgment in solido, for fifteen hundred dollars, with leave to take out execution for the sum of eight hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the amount of rent due and payable at the date of the judgment, and so from .month to month, for the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, until the whole be paid. The defendants appealed.
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